Boy with knife tries to rob child’s ice cream

Pasadena police are on the lookout for a 6- or 7-year-old boy who tried to rob an 11-year-old boy for ice cream last week at a Pasadena public park.

“We read reports every day and see strange things like that happen,” said Vance Mitchell, spokesman at the Pasadena Police Department. “Every time I think I’ve heard them all, there’s one that jumps up like this.”

The older boy was buying a treat from an ice cream truck in Red Bluff Park when the younger boy approached holding a knife, Mitchell said. The boy threatened to stab the victim unless he bought him an ice cream.

The 11 year old dropped his ice cream and ran home, with the ice cream truck driver trailing behind him for his safety.

Mitchell said the would-be robber turned the knife over to the driver before fleeing on his bicycle.